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00:06 >> From when I was very young, around five years old,
00:10 I felt like I was limited in what I could do in life as a girl or as a woman.
00:16 >> By the time I was about 13, I was starting to feel really depressed.
00:21 I started self harming.
00:22 I started developing an eating disorder.
00:24 I was introduced to a belief system.
00:29 >> If you don't fit in, that's a sign that you're trans.
00:31 If you don't like your body, then that's a sign that you're trans.
00:34 And if you transition, all of these problems will be fixed.
00:38 >> When I was 22, I started injecting testosterone into my body,
00:45 so that I could medically transition from female to male.
00:48 >> Pretty much as soon as I turned 18, I made an appointment.
00:52 I went to Planned Parenthood.
00:54 One appointment took about an hour.
00:57 I called Planned Parenthood, we had about a 30 minute phone conversation, and
01:01 then I was prescribed testosterone over the phone.
01:04 >> I was saying stuff like, I think that I'm gonna be so
01:06 much happier after I transition.
01:08 I'm really depressed now, and I'm suicidal, but
01:12 everything's gonna be so much better after I transition.
01:14 >> I have to say there was a small underlying anxiety
01:21 beneath the excitement that was a fear that I might be doing something wrong.
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01:33 >> My life just became a total disaster.
01:38 >> And then right after the surgery, I had been hit with these awful
01:43 feelings of having made a huge mistake, undeniable, just like, no, what have I done?
01:50 I was looking down at my body and seeing these weeping gashes on my chest and
01:56 just having the most awful feeling.
02:01 >> Every year we don't stop this.
02:03 How many hundreds or thousands of young girls like me, like some of you,
02:08 how many of them are going to leap at the chance to have their newly lumpy chest
02:13 flattened out again by mastectomies before they stop being sore?
02:17 >> I was thinking about that and realizing I don't really feel better.
02:20 >> It just finally hit me that, my God, this has all been a mistake, everything.
02:26 >> I also don't really feel like a man,
02:28 I just feel like a woman who has had her breasts cut off.
02:32 [MUSIC]
02:34 >> It wasn't enough for me to just detransition and get on with my life.
02:37 I really wanted to understand what happened to me, and
02:40 I wanted to understand what was going on in the world.
02:43 >> We do our girls a disservice when we lie to them and
02:46 tell them they don't have to be women.
02:48 We tell them they can be anything they want to be, but
02:50 we have forgotten to tell them to love being who they are.
02:53 >> I wanted people to know that there is life after detransition,
02:56 even if you've made serious physical changes.
03:00 >> Woman, women, mother, mom, girls, girls, daughter.
03:06 To those people, the peddlers of transgender ideology,
03:10 these are not your words to give away.
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